A tragedy and a travesty to report today: First, the tragedy: Details are emerging about a 14-year old boy who had committed suicide last year in the UK. As reported by The Telegraph , Callum Green hung himself with a school tie after claiming "he was being bullied at Audenshaw High School in Audenshaw, Manchester." As I wrote in my piece on The Hunger Games , or as Pink Floyd satirized so long ago , the government-run school system, be it in America or the UK, is increasingly becoming a place of desperation, bullying, and lower and lower academic standards . Tragic. Now the travesty: The results of the coroner's inquest have now been released and the results are...a joke? Despite Green's girlfriend saying that "he wanted to run away from home and have a baby with her", and despite having a fight with his "mum" and being "grounded...for staying out late with his girlfriend the night before", and even de...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....